I guess u ran across the same notorious issue: heavyweight components
vs. lightweight ones. The latter are always overlapped by the former,
no matter what the Z order is. Canvas3D is a heavyweight comp, while
all Swing components are the light ones.

I guess that's where your problem is.

vladimir
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In your previous letter u wrote:
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SS> Hello,

SS> Attached is a short program that should (as far as I know) implement
SS> a java3d window as a JPanel.  However, it does not.
SS> Any suggestions.

SS> Steve


SS> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SS> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SS> import java.awt.*;
SS> import java.awt.event.*;
SS> import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
SS> import javax.swing.*;
SS> import javax.swing.JFrame;

SS> public class MethodView extends JFrame {

SS>     Container contentpane;
SS>   protected JPanel ivjJPanel1 = null;

SS>   MethodNode MethodRoot = new MethodNode();

SS>     public MethodView(String name,int x,int y,int h,int w)
SS>     {
SS>       super(name);
SS>       this.setBounds(x,y,h,w);

SS>       this.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
SS>                                           public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
SS>                                                   System.exit(0);
SS>                                           }});

SS>       contentpane = this.getContentPane();

SS>       MethodPanel3D methPanel = new MethodPanel3D();
SS>       contentpane.add("Center",methPanel);

SS>       this.show();
SS>    }

SS>     public static void main(String[] args)
SS>     {
SS>         JFrame frame = new MethodView("Test for Java3D panel",50,50,500,500);
SS>     }
SS> }
SS> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SS> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SS> import javax.swing.*;
SS> import java.awt.*;
SS> import java.awt.event.*;

SS> import com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.*;
SS> import com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.*;
SS> import javax.media.j3d.*;
SS> import javax.vecmath.*;

SS> import com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.ColorCube;


SS> class MethodPanel3D extends JPanel
SS> {
SS>    Canvas3D canvas;

SS>     public MethodPanel3D()
SS>     {
SS>     setOpaque(false);

SS>       canvas = new Canvas3D(SimpleUniverse.getPreferredConfiguration());
SS>      BranchGroup scene = createSceneGraph();
SS>      SimpleUniverse u = new SimpleUniverse(canvas);
SS>       u.getViewingPlatform().setNominalViewingTransform();
SS>      u.addBranchGraph(scene);

SS>       add("Center",canvas);

SS>     }

SS>     public BranchGroup createSceneGraph()
SS>     {
SS>      BranchGroup objRoot = new BranchGroup();

SS>     objRoot.addChild( new ColorCube(0.4) );

SS>     return objRoot;
SS>     }

SS> /*
SS>     public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
SS>     {
SS>         super.paintComponent(g);
SS>         g.drawString("test",50,50);
SS>     }
SS> */

SS> }
SS> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SS> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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